#18 Maps and Geotagging

What’s it all about? Maps on the internet have become incredibly sophisticated. While years ago, it was possible to ask for driving directions from New York to London and get instructions such as: Swim across the Atlantic Ocean          3462 mi this just doesn’t happen as often. Although you should always do a sanity check on [...]

#17 Avatars & Second Life

What’s It All About? Avatars are icons or representations of users in a shared virtual reality, like Second Life. Within online virtual communities and Internet forums, avatars are pictures that users display alongside their contributions to represent themselves. Avatars have also become popular in instant messaging where they are also referred to as buddy icons. [...]

Quicker than a ray of light

Check out the St. Joseph’s County Public Library video for their staff day. Viewed more than 46,000 times!

#16 Online Applications & Tools

What’s It All About? The availability and use of free web-based applications or apps for short (word processing, spreadsheets, calendars, presentations, project management, and web conferencing) has exploded over the past few years. And with good reason, these powerful applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the internet without the [...]

#15 Search Engines

What’s It All About? Google, Yahoo, & Ask.com are the Big 3 of Search Engines. Take a second literally, and try to think of the differences between these search engines. Perhaps you came up with some and perhaps not but no matter because University of California at Berkeley has created an excellent description of the [...]

Look us up on Facebook

Did you choose Facebook back in Week 8 for your social networking tool? If so stop on by, and say hello on the wall or, maybe even become a fan. Cheers!

#14 Podcasting: something for everyone

What’s It All About? The word podcast refers to a non-musical audio broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from any other mp3 audio file on the Web is its method of distribution: our new friend RSS. To put it simply, mp3 + RSS = podcast. Podcasts can take many forms [...]